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New Books: October 2007

October 2007

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The following are new titles in the Library’s collection:

Philosophy, Psychology, Religion

BD

Western philosophy: an illustrated guide.  D. Panineau.

BF

This thing called grief: new understandings of loss.  T. M. Ellis.

BF

QBQ: the question behind the question.  J. G. Miller.

BF

Don’t get scrooged.  R. Carlson.

BL

Religious literacy: what every American needs to know – and doesn’t.  S. Prothero.

BL

Geography of religion: where God lives, where pilgrims walk.  S. Hitchcock.

BL

Mighty and the Almighty: reflections on America, God, and world affairs.  M. Albright.

BL

Blind faith: the unholy alliance of religion and medicine.  R. Sloan.

BL

Language of God: a scientist presents evidence for belief.  F. Collins.

BL

Intelligent thought: science versus the intelligent design movement.  J. Brockman.

BL

Short history of myth.  K. Armstrong.

BL

Restless souls: the making of American spirituality.  L. Schmidt.

BP

Reader in new religious movements.  G. Chryssides.

BR

Baptizing of America: the religious right’s plan for the rest of us.  J. Rudin.

BR

Introduction to the history of Christianity.  G. Herring.

BT

What God has joined together?:  the Christian case for gay marriage.  D. G. Myers.

BX

John Paul II: the man, the disciple, the leader. 

BX

Spanish Inquisition.  J. Perez.

Biography, Auxiliary Materials

CJ

All the money in the world: the art and history of paper money and coins from antiquity to the 21st century.  D. Mudd.

CT

Worst person in the world: and 202 strong contenders.  K. Olbermann.

CT

Andrew Carnegie.  D. Nasaw.

World History

D

War: a photo history.  D. Anderson.

D

GI ingenuity: improvisation, technology, and winning World War II.  J. Carafano.

D

Alliance of enemies: the untold story of the secret American and German collaboration to end World War II.   A. von Hassell.

DA

Boudica: the life of Britain’s legendary warrior queen.  V. Collingridge.

DG

Caesar: life of a colossus.  A. Goldsworthy.

DS

Daily life in the medieval Islamic world.  J. Lindsay.

DS

Insurgency and counter-insurgency in Iraq.  A. S. Hashim.

DS

Sala’s gift: my mother’s Holocaust story.  A. Kirschner.

DS

Democracy in Iran: history and the quest for liberty.  A. Gheissari.

DS

Places in between.  R. Stewart.

American History

E

Circle of life: traditional teachings of Native American elders.  J. Audlin.

E

Troubled peace: U.S. policy and the two Koreas.  C. J. Lee.

E

Now they call me infidel: why I renounced jihad for America, Israel, and the War on Terror.  N. Darwish.

E

Is Bill Cosby right?: or has the Black middle class lost its mind?  M. Dyson.

E

My face is black is true: Callie House and the struggle for ex-slave reparations.  M. F. Berry.

E

Rough crossings: Britain, the slaves, and the American Revolution.  S. Schama.

E

Epic journeys of freedom.  C. Pybus.

E

From Midnight to Dawn: the last tracks of the underground railroad.  J. Tobin.

E

Confederate rage, Yankee wrath: no quarter in the Civil War.  G. Burkhardt. 

E

Civil War in Tennessee.  S. Cottrell.

E

Breaking the Confederacy.  J. H. Lepa.

E

Scalawags: southern dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction.  J. Baggett.

E

Dixie betrayed: how the South really lost the Civil War.  D. J. Eicher.

E

Confederate Ninth Tennessee Infantry.  J. Fleming.

E

Sultana tragedy: America’s greatest maritime disaster.  J. O. Potter.

E

Eye of the storm: a Civil War odyssey.  R. Sneden.

E

Berry Benson’s Civil War book: memoirs of a Confederate scout and sharpshooter.  S. W. Benson.

E

Portals to hell: military prisons of the Civil War.  L. R. Speer.

E

Women in the Civil War.  M. E. Massey.

E

Godly hero: the life of William Jennings Bryan.  M. Kazin.

E

Odyssey of an eavesdropper.  M. Kaiser.

E

Greatest story ever sold: the decline and fall of truth from 9/11 to Katrina.  F. Rich.

F

There goes my everything: white Southerners in the age of civil rights, 1945-1975.  J. Sokol.

F

Vanished Mississippi Gulf Coast.  J. Fraiser.

F

In the footsteps of Davy Crockett.  R. Jones.

F

Mexico profundo: reclaiming a civilization.  G. Bonfil Batalla.

F

Fragments of a Golden Age.  G. Joseph.

F

Images at war: Mexico from Columbus to Blade Runner.  S. Gruzinski.

F

Mexicans: a personal portrait of a people.  P. Oster.

F

Myths of Mexico and Peru.  L. Spence. 

F

Born in blood and fire: a concise history of Latin America.  J. Chasteen.

F

Resistance, rebellion, and consciousness in the Andean peasant world, 18th to 20th centuries.  S. J. Stern.

F

Ice maiden: Inca mummies, mountain gods, and sacred sites in the Andes.  J. Reinhard.

Geography, Anthropology, Recreation

G

Off the map: tales of endurance and exploration.  F. Fleming.

G

Seventy great journeys in history.  R. Hanbury-Tenison.

GA

Map book.  P. Barber.

GA

100 maps: the science, art, and politics of cartography throughout history.  J. O. Clark.

GB

Fragile earth: views of a changing world. 

GC

Ocean: the world’s last wilderness revealed. 

GC

Tsunami: the world’s most terrifying natural disaster.  G. Tibballs.

GN

First in line: tracing our ape ancestry.  T. Gundling.

GT

Christmasland.  R. del Pozzo.

GV

Shades of glory.  L Hogan.

GV

Lion in autumn: a season with Joe Paterno and Penn State football.  R. Fitzpatrick.

GV

Guide to martial arts.  J. Goldman.

GV

Brainiac.  K. Jennings.

Business, Social Sciences

H

Focus groups: theory and practice.  D. Stewart.

HB

Demographics: a guide to methods and data sources.  S. Murdock.

HB

Revolutionary wealth.  A. Toeffler.

HC

Scam-proof your life.   S. Kirchheimer.

HD

How to start a business in Tennessee. 

HD

Big book of small business.  T. Gegax.

HD

Wikinomics: how mass collaboration changes everything.  D. Tapscott.

HD

End of food.  T. Pawlick.

HD

Lives per gallon: the true cost of our oil addiction.  T. Tamminen.

HD

Avon: building the world’s premier company for women.  L. Klepacki.

HF

86 percent solution.  V. Mahajan.

HF

Leave your nose ring at home: get the job you want by creating a powerful first impression.  J. Swinger.

HF

One minute manners.  A. M. Sabath.

HF

Mind your x’s and y’s: satisfying the 10 cravings of a new generation of consumers.  L. Johnson.

HF

Excel 2007 just the steps for dummies.  D. Koers.

HF

Microsoft Office 2007 simplified.  S. Kinkoph.

HF

Vital friends: the people you can’t afford to live without.  T. Rath.

HF

As seen in Vogue: a century of American fashion in advertising.  D. D. Hill.

HG

Guide to financial markets.  M. Levinson.

HG

Women and money.  S. Orman.

HG

Globalizers: the IMF, the World Bank, and their borrowers.  N. Woods.

HJ

United States as a debtor nation.  W. Cline.

HM

Flavor of the month: why smart people fall for fads.  J. Best.

HM

Who controls the Internet:  illustrations of a borderless world.  J. Goldsmith.

HM

Anatomy of peace. 

HN

At day’s close: night in times past.  A. R. Ekirch.

HN

Caught in the crossfire: kids, politics, and America’s future.  L. Grossberg.

HN

Crunchy cons: the new conservative counterculture and its return to roots.  R. Dreher.

HQ

Deadly medicine: creating the master race.  D. Kuntz.

HQ

Mind the gap!  G. Codrington.

HQ

To hell with all that: loving and loathing our inner housewife.  C. Flanagan.

HQ

Ask supernanny: what every parent wants to know.  J. Frost.

HQ

Internet playground: children’s access, entertainment, and mis-education.  E. Seiter.

HQ

Boy crazy.  C. Giannetti.

HQ

US guys: the true and twisted mind of the American man.  C. Leduff.

HV

Music of a thousand hammers: inside Habitat for Humanity.  P. Leonard.

HV

Where soldiers fear to tread: a relief worker’s tale of survival.  J. Burnett.

HV

9/11 report: a graphic representation.  S. Jacobson.

HV

Looming tower: Al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11.  L. Wright.

HV

Why people die by suicide.  T. Joiner.

HV

Children exposed to violence.  M. Feerick.

HV

Identity theft toolkit: how to recover from and avoid identity theft.  J. Lenardon.

HV

Dr. Henry Lee’s forensic files.  H. C. Lee.

Political Science

JC

Imagined communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism.  B. Anderson.

JC

Democracy: a history.  J. Dunn.

JK

Ghost plane: the true story of the CIA torture program.  S. Grey.

JK

Denial and deception: an insider’s view of the CIA.  M. Mahle.

JK

Winning the vote: the triumph of the American woman suffrage movement.  R. Cooney.

JZ

Coming of age in a globalized world.  J. Adams.

Law

KF

40 days and 40 nights: Darwin, intelligent design, God, Oxycontin, and other oddities on trial in Pennsylvania.  M. Chapman.

KF

Concise guide to paralegal ethics.  T. Cannon.

KF

Paralegal professional essentials.  H. Cheeseman.

KF

Everything guide to being a paralegal.  S. Schneider.

KF

Law (in plain English) for restaurants and others in the food industry.  L. DuBoff.

KF

Dying to be beautiful: the fight for safe cosmetics.  G. Kay.

KF

Black trials: citizenship from the beginnings of slavery to the end of caste.  M. S. Weiner.

Education

LB

Teach like your hair’s on fire: the methods and madness inside Room 56.  R. Esquith.

LB

Building bridges for women of color in higher education.  C. Battle.

LB

Campus confidential: the complete guide to the college experience by students for students.   R. Miller.

LB

Classroom of choice: giving students what they need and getting what you want.  J. Erwin.

LC

I compagni: understanding children’s transition from preschool to elementary school.  W. Corsaro.

LC

Turn away thy son: Little Rock, the crisis that shocked a nation.  E. Jacoway.

Music

ML

American journey: the Oak Ridge Boys.  J. Bonsall.

MT

Music theory.  B. Tagliarino.

Fine Arts, Architecture

N

Maxfield Parrish: master of make-believe.  A. G. Smith.

N

Vision and art: the biology of seeing.  M. Livingstone.

N

Art of the digital age.  B. Wands.

NA

Frank Lloyd Wright: a retrospective view.  T. Copplestone.

NA

Curb appeal idea book.  M. E. Polson.

NA

Big book of home plans. 

NA

Simple home: the luxury of enough.  S. Nettleton.

NA

150 best apartment ideas.  A. Canizares.

NC

Drawing blood: forty-five years of Scarfe uncensored.  G. Scarfe.

NC

Walt Disney: the triumph of the American imagination.  N. Gabler.

NC

Art of Ray Harryhausen.

ND

100 masterpieces of painting.  M. Nuridsany.

ND

Painting landscapes.

NK

Great road style: the decorative arts legacy of southwest Virginia and northeast Tennessee.  B. K. White.

NK

Shades of country.  C. Irvine.

NK

Spectacular homes of Tennessee.

NK

Makeovers for your outdoor spaces.  E. Hamilton.

NK

Sourcebook of modern furniture.  J. Habegger.

NK

Bling, the hip-hop jewelry book.  R. Osse.

NX

Woman’s gaze: Latin American women artists.  M. Agosin.

Language, Literature

PL

My name is Red.   O. Pamuk.

PL

Modern Japanese stories: an anthology.  I. Morris.

PL

Literature of Africa.  D. Killam.

PN

Adaptation and appropriation.  J. Sanders.

PN

Puppetry: a world history. E. Blumenthal.

PN

Little Miss Sunshine: the shooting script.  M. Arnot.

PN

Napoleon Dynamite: final shooting script.  J. Hess.

PN

History of the American theatre from its origins to 1832.  W. Dunlap.

PN

Narrative.   P. Cobley.

PN

Public speaking for college and career.  G. Hamilton.

PN

Dead beat: lost souls, lucky stiffs, and the perverse pleasure of obituaries.  M. Johnson.

PN

Magic & madness in the library.  E. Graeber.

PN

Year’s best graphic novels, comics, & manga.  B. Preiss.

PN

Absolute Batman: the Long Halloween.  J. Loeb.

PN

Superman chronicles.  J. Siegel.

PQ

Giordano Bruno and the geometry of language.  A. Saiber.

PQ

Latin American women’s writing.  A. B. Jones.

PQ

Literature of Latin America.  R. Ocasio.

PQ

Remembering maternal bodies: melancholy in Latina and Latin American women’s writing.  B. Trigo.

PQ

Foucault and Latin America: appropriations and deployments of discoursive analysis.  B. Trigo.

PQ

Plotting women: gender and representation in Mexico.  J. Franco.

PQ

Other mirror: women’s narrative in Mexico, 1980-1995.  K. Ibsen, ed.

PR

Pardoner’s prologue and tale.  G. Chaucer.

PR

All things Chaucer.  S. Rogers.

PR

Malory: the knight who became King Arthur’s chronicler.  C. Hardyment.

PR

Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets.  J. K. Rowling.

PR

Irish writer and the world.  D. Kiberd.

PS

Chick lit: the new woman’s fiction.  S. Ferriss.

PS

Fresh fiction for fresh water fishing. 

PS

Baseball & the lyrical life.  T. Tolnay.

PS

In bad faith: the dynamics of deception in Mark Twain’s America.   F. Robinson.

PS

Daughter of Boston.  C. Dall.

PS

Critical companion to Emily Dickinson.  S. Leiter.

PS

Best known works of Nathaniel Hawthorn. 

PS

Original knickerbocker: the life of Washington Iriving.  A. Burstein.

PS

Shirley Jackson: essays on the literary legacy.  B. Murphy.

PS

Collected shorter plays.  E. O’Neill.

PS

Ambivalent art of Katherine Anne Porter.   M. Titus.

PS

Ralph Ellison.  A. Rampersad.

PS

Alchemy of words.  E. Francisco.

PS

Collected stories of Amy Hempel.

PS

David Madden: a writer for all genres.  R. Hendricks.

PS

Nancy Culpepper: stories.  B. A. Mason.

PS

Quiet as it’s kept: shame, trauma, and race in the novels of Toni Morrison.  J. B. Bouson.

PS

Dreaming on a Sunday in the Alameda and other plays.  C. Morton.

PS

Waiting on Pentecost.  T. Smith.

PS

Three dog life.  A. Thomas.

PS

Native guard.  N. Trethewey.

PS

Home to Big Stone Gap.  A. Trigiani.

PS

Critical companion to Ernest Hemingway.  C. Oliver.

PS

Copy cats: stories.  D. Crouse.

PS

Shadwell Hills.  R. Lilly.

PS

Devil talk: stories.  D. Olivas.

Mathematics, Computer Science, Sciences

Q

Every other Thursday: stories and strategies from successful women scientists.  E. Daniell.

Q

Preparing literature reviews: qualitative and quantitative approaches.  M. L. Pan.

QA

Mathematics miseducation: the case against a tired tradition.  D. Stolp.

QA

Everyware: the dawning age of ubiquitous computing.  A. Greenfield.

QA

CSS: the definitive guide.  E. Meyer.

QA

Linux system administration.  T. Adelstein.

QA

Linux toys II: 9 new cool projects for home, office, and entertainment.  C. Negus.

QA

How to do everything with Microsoft Office Access 2007.  V. Andersen.

QA

Secrets of mental math.  A. Benjamin.

QA

Superfractals.  M. Barnsley.

QB

Earthcam: watching the world from orbit.  T. Hope.

QC

Tornado alley: monster storms of the Great Plains.  H. Bluestein.

QH

Future of the wild: radical conservation for a crowded world.  J. Adams.

QH

Rainforest.  T. Marent.

QH

Field guide to eastern forests, North America.  J. C. Kricher.

QH

Monkey girl: evolution, education, religion, and the battle for America’s soul.  E. Humes.

QL

Kaufman field guide to insects of North America.  E. R. Eaton.

QL

Frogs: inside their remarkable world.  E.  Beltz.

QL

Owls.   P. Sterry.

QL

Mammals of the national parks.  J. H. Burden.

QL

Secret sex lives of animals.  D. Lambert.

Medicine

R

Birth of the clinic: an archaeology of medical perception.  M. Foucault.

R

Doctors from hell: the horrific account of Nazi experiments on humans.  V. Spitz.

RA

What’s toxic, what’s not.  G. Ginsberg.

RA

Epidemic: a global history of AIDS.  J. Engel.

RA

African AIDS epidemic: a history.  J. Iliffe.

RA

Healthy at 100.  J. Robbins.

RA

Fitness after 50.  W. Ettinger.

RA

Natural causes.  D. Hurley.

RC

Elegy for a disease: a personal and cultural history of polio.  A. Finger.

RC

Brain science and psychological disorders.  F. Scott Kraly.

RC

Mind over mood.  D. Greensberger.

RC

Bipolar handbook: real-life questions.  W. Burgess.

RC

Harvard Medical School guide to a good night’s sleep.  L. Epstein.

RC

Mindless eating: why we eat more than we think.  B. Wansink.

RE

Rx for computer eyes.  K. Geiger.

RM

Umbilical-cord stem-cell therapy.  D. Steenblock.

RT

Concepts of the nursing profession.    K. A. Polifko.

RT

Resumes for nursing careers.

Agriculture

SB

Complete guide to houseplants.  V. Bradley.

SF

Hive: the story of the honeybee and us.  B. Wilson.

Technology

T

Gecko’s foot: bio-inspiration: engineering new materials from nature.  P. Forbes.

T

Using AutoCAD 2007.  R. Grabowski.

TH

Smart approach to home renovation.  S. Hillstrom.

TH

Remodeling for easy-access living.  R. Peters.

TK

Naked conversations: how blogs are changing the way businesses talk with customers.  R. Scoble.

TL

Crashproof your kids.  T. Smith.

TR

Adobe Photoshop CS2: the art of photographing women.  K. Ames.

TR

Photoshop Elements 4.  N. Wooldridge.

TR

Creative vision: digital and traditional methods for inspiring innovative photography.  J. Webb.

TR

One planet: a celebration of biodiversity.  N. Hulot.